Timeline August 1920

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• 1856 – 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920) Died 1 August 1920, aged 64 Indian nationalist leader and one of the first popular advocates of complete Indian self-rule, known by the epithet "Lokmanya." He was a prominent voice in the Indian independence movement before the rise of Mahatma Gandhi. His death was followed the same month by Gandhi's launch of the non-cooperation movement.
• 1920 Communist Party of Great Britain Founded British communists unite into a single party Several socialist and communist groups in Britain merged to form the Communist Party of Great Britain at a unity convention in London. The party affiliated with the Communist International in Moscow. It remained active in British politics for seven decades.
• 1920 – 1933 Attacked as a Jewish physicist Antisemitic campaigns against relativity in Germany From 1920 nationalist groups staged meetings denouncing relativity, and Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark led a Deutsche Physik movement against so-called Jewish science. Einstein was threatened by name. Colleagues urged him to leave Berlin years before he did.
• 1920 US Championships 1920 Men: Bill Tilden · Women: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory Bill Tilden began his six-year US dominance.
• 1920 Marcus Garvey Convenes UNIA International Convention Thousands gather in Harlem for Black nationalist congress The Universal Negro Improvement Association held its first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York, drawing thousands of delegates from across the diaspora. The convention adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World and elected Marcus Garvey as Provisional President of Africa. It marked the high point of Garvey's Black nationalist movement.
• 1920 – 2014 P.D. James (1920-2014) Died 27 November 2014, aged 94 P.D. James, the English author best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective novels, died at her home in Oxford. She was widely regarded as one of the leading crime writers of her generation. She continued publishing well into her nineties.
• 1920 The Treaty of Sèvres Sèvres, France Partitioned the Ottoman Empire so severely that it triggered a Turkish national movement under Mustafa Kemal, and was never implemented.
• 1920 Treaty of Sevres Signed Allied powers impose peace terms on the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman government signed the Treaty of Sevres, which stripped the empire of most of its Arab territories and ceded large areas to Greece and other neighbors. The harsh terms fueled the Turkish National Movement led by Mustafa Kemal, which rejected the treaty. It was superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
• 1920 Battle of Warsaw Polish forces halt the Soviet advance on the capital Polish troops under Jozef Pilsudski decisively defeated the advancing Red Army outside Warsaw during the Polish-Soviet War, a victory later dubbed the "Miracle on the Vistula." The battle halted the westward spread of Soviet power and secured Polish independence. It is regarded as one of the most significant battles of the twentieth century.
• 1920 Battle of Warsaw 1920 Miracle at the Vistula Decisive battle where Poland stopped the Red Armys march into Western Europe.
• 1920 – 2015 Maureen O'Hara (1920-2015) Died 24 October 2015, aged 95 Maureen O'Hara was an Irish-American actress known for her roles in The Quiet Man, Miracle on 34th Street and a string of Technicolor films opposite John Wayne. She was one of the leading actresses of Hollywood's golden age. O'Hara received an honorary Academy Award in 2014 for her body of work.
• 1920 – 2006 Shelley Winters (1920-2006) American actress with a career of six decades, winner of two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue.
• 1920 Shelley Winters born in St. Louis Shelley Winters is born in St. Louis.
• 1920 – 2012 Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) Died 5 June 2012, aged 91 American author of science fiction and fantasy, best known for the novel "Fahrenheit 451" and the story collection "The Martian Chronicles." He was one of the most widely read American writers of the 20th century.
• 1920 – present The Salzburg Festival Jedermann One of the world’s most prestigious festivals for music and drama, founded by Max Reinhardt and Richard Strauss.
• 1920 Charlie Parker born in Kansas City, Kansas Raised in Kansas City, Missouri Grows up in the jazz-rich Kansas City of the 1930s.